Bethel Community Church

Analysis

Bethel Community Church is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Barnsley. It was registered in February 1996, 30 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the prevention or relief of poverty, overseas aid/famine relief and religious activities, which this site groups under poverty relief. It says it makes grants to organisations, provides services and other charitable activities.

In the financial year ending December 2025, Bethel Community Church reported income of £336k and spending of £316k, spending 94% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2021 to December 2025, income grew from £220k to £336k (+53%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 75% of the income it received.

Among 15,276 England and Wales charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Bethel Community Church sits at the 83rd percentile: it is larger than about 83% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Samphire (£336k), Warwick District Foodbank (£336k) and Bolton Young Men's Christian Association (£336k).